Hillary Clinton to LGBTQ people: ‘I Will Always Have Your Back’
In an exclusive interview with the Washington Blade, Hillary Clinton went on record with her commitment to LGBTQ people. She told the Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson, “We have so much more work to do, and I want LGBT people in every corner of this country to know that as president, I will always have your back.”
In the interview, Clinton recommitted herself to pushing comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination legislation known as the Equality Act and to work to ensure the prohibition on gender discrimination under current law applies to LGBT people.
“As president, I’ll make fighting discrimination against the LGBT community a top priority – including by working with Congress to pass the Equality Act,” Clinton said. “And we won’t stop there. We’ll also take on harassment, bullying, and violence – and youth homelessness, which disproportionately hurts LGBT kids.”
For the first time, Clinton explicitly vowed to veto the First Amendment Defense Act, a federal “religious freedom” bill that would enable anti-LGBT discrimination.
